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Thursday, August 14, 2014

Obama's reaction

President Obama said in a recent interview that "Pres.
Abbas of the PA is too weak to make peace and PM Netanyahu is too strong." Is
that what passes for serious analysis in the mind of the President. Give me a
break, what nonsense, what does it mean? How can you be too strong to make
peace, on the contrary, if a leader is too weak to make peace, that's
understandable, he cannot bring his constituency along with him, he cannot
guarantee that they will honor the agreement he makes, but the converse is not
true, if a leader is strong, then he can make peace, he can
bring his people and his government along with him. So this analysis makes no
sense. But it can be understood, as a basis for Obama's thinking, that because
PM Netanyahu is so strong, he must be weakened, he must be cut down to size, he
must be as weak as the PA President. But, then of course, no one will be able
to make peace. Can anyone tell me that this President really has any idea what
he is talking about? This is the person who must ensure the West's survival
against the galloping expansion of the most hard-line murderous regime since
Nazi Germany came on the scene, the terrorists of the Islamic
State.

Oh, yes, I forgot, Obama gave the order for the USAF to
blast the forward elements of the IS attacking the Kurdish enclave in northern
Iraq. How many bombs so far, 6? Does anyone think that is going to make a
significant difference. They already are well equipped with US arms because
they took them from the US-backed and trained Iraqi Army, that melted away as
soon as they saw the IS coming. The decision to put so much funding and arms
into the Iraqi Army should be investigated by Congress. It was one of the
biggest mistakes in the history of US foreign policy. But, be that as it may,
we are now at the situation where the IS is still expanding, while carrying out
genocide on every minority, such as the Yazidis and the Christians. Before they
consolidate their power is the time to attack them, waiting too long will allow
them to become entrenched as the new Islamic Caliphate and they will become a
greater danger to the US and the West than al Qaeda ever was.

The "moderate" Muslim States such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia,
Jordan and Kuwait are very concerned. After taking Iraq and Syria, they are
next on the IS list, since their version of Islam is heretical. I would like to ask the thousands of those
non-Muslims who have been demonstrating against Israel and in favor of Hamas
whether they know how many Christians are left in Gaza. Of course, they might
not care that Christians are being persecuted, expelled and ethnically cleansed
throughout the Middle East. In fact in Gaza there is estimated to be ca. 3,000
when there once was 50,000. In Bethlehem in the Palestine Authority, where
there was once 85% Christians there are now 20%. In Baghdad, after bombings and
massacres and desecration of Churches, most of the Christians have fled. Now in
northern Iraq in Mosul and Ninevah, where Christians have lived for 2,000 years,
long before the Muslim conquest, Christians are being expelled, murdered, and
even crucified by the forces of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS). Israel
is the only country In the Middle East where Christians are not
persecuted.

But, why should I care, there used to be Jews in these
places too, all over the Middle East, and in Iraq for thousands of years, before
Christianity and before Islam arrived. But, the Christians did nothing when the
Muslims expelled the Jews, they even helped, to prove their loyalty (a Christian
Arab, Michel Aflaq, founded the Ba'ath party). It didn't help them. Remember
that phrase of Pastor Niemoller: "First they came for the socialists - and I
did not speak out because I was not a socialist; then they came for the trade
unionists - and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist; then
they came for the Jews - and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew; then
they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me." If all these
nice leftists think they will be exempt, forget it, they will be the first to be
chopped up, literally, by the forces of fundamentalist Islam that are now on the
march in the Middle East, of which Hamas in Gaza is only a small
part.

President Obama, has risen from his usual slumbers and
made a decision. He has decided to send arms to the Kurds and to drop targeted
bombs on the IS fighters driving north who are only a short ride from Irbil, the
capital of the Kurdish Autonomous Region. Having routed the Yazidis, a small
sect that is non-Muslim and the Christians, IS is now bent on destroying the
KAR. If they manage to defeat the Peshmerga forces of the KAR, as they did
earlier in Kirkuk, then there could be massacres of millions of people. Tell
that to the ignorant idiots who are shouting their support for Hamas. But, I
doubt that they would have the intelligence to
understand.